Note: Last night CTBirds delayed delivery of messages for hours so we
have some Saturday reports that only arrived overnight.
From Sarah Faulkner:
02/09/14 - Collinsville yard -- For just the second time this year, a
single, shy Pine Siskin at the feeder Sunday morning.
From Ed Dettore:
02/09/14 - (West?) Hartford, Reservoir 6 -- 2 SNOW GOOSE
From Ray Belding with Deb Bishop:
02/08/14 - West Hartford, Reservoir 6 -- 2 Snow Geese, 2 Northern
Pintail.
Windsor Locks, Bradley Airport, east side where snow is being dumped
-- 41 Snow Buntings
From Kevin McGrath:
02/09/14 - Stratford, Birdseye Boat Ramp -- finally located a Snowy
Owl in the distance hunkered down in the marsh across the river.
From Dan Rottino:
02/09/14 - East Haddam yard -- FOX SPARROW for the 4 the consecutive
day in a row, one or two each day.
From Robert Dixon:
02/09/14 - Sterling yard -- YELLOW-BELLIED SAPSUCKER (1f), RUSTY
BLACKBIRD (8).
From Russ Naylor:
02/09/14 - Lake Zoar, Housatonic River above Stevenson Dam, west of
Oxford & Southbury, east of Newtown and Monroe -- 1 PM; 1 Peregrine
Falcon, 2 immature Iceland Gulls, 1 immature Glaucus Gull.
From Donna Caporaso:
02/09/14 - Stratford -- white morph Rough-legged Hawk on Lordship Blvd
just before the fork that turns off toward the Airport/Long Beach. I
have seen the bird in that area several times.
From Scott Besade:
02/08/14 - New London, Thames River, Bentley Creek -- Lesser Scaup 12.
From Glenn Williams:
02/08/14 - Southbury -- The Mew Gull was not seen for the three hours
that I was present in Southbury Saturday. Denise Jurnigan was there
before me and Russ Naylor was there when I left. Present were a
Glaucous Gull, two Iceland Gulls. Off nearby Cassidy Road, there was
a White-crowned Sparrow, a mangy coyote eating a vole in the same spot
as last weekend, and a raccoon high in a crab apple tree gorging
itself.
From Russ Smiley:
02/08/14 - Madison, Hammonasset State Park -- 4:30 PM; Snowy Owl seen
from Cedar Island platform. Rough-legged Hawkin area, too.
From Bill Yule with CT River Museum's Eagle Watch boat tour:
02/08/14 - Connecticut River, between Joshua's Rock, Lyme and Ayer's
Point, Old Saybrook -- 17 sub-adult Bald Eagles, 5 Adult Bald Eagles.